Austin, Could we please make sure to include this bug for 7.8.3?
https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/9078 The ticket already includes a patch that solves the problem for us. As remarked by Levent, this bug will probably affect all EDSL that use Andy’s StableName-based observable sharing trick. Cheers, Manuel Austin Seipp <aus...@well-typed.com>: > Hello all, > > It has been another slow week here, and there wasn't a lot I touched > in the tree this week. The primary highlights: > > * The AMP battle rages on! It turns out the addition of `join` to > `Monad` has had some subtle implications for GND/Roles. See here for > more: https://www.haskell.org/pipermail/ghc-devs/2014-May/004964.html > > * Simon is still reviewing the ORF work, as far as I know. Hopefully > it will Land Real Soon Now. > > * Patches! Lots of them! I'm reviewing and merging several of them > right now. In particular, all the ones slated for 7.8.3 are up for > grabs[1] by me right now, but I do need to double-check some of them > e.g. on Windows, to make sure nothing breaks. > > * Many branches have been deleted. Something like 20-30 of them, I > think. Yay! Sorry for the spam to the commits list too, but it was a > necessary evil. > > * I'm working away at some of the bugs. #7602 is building right now, > with some nice improvements. That will go into the 7.8.3 branch, so OS > X users will get a big performance gain, yay! > > * Another bug: #8736. I had a patch for this, but this one is tricky > to fix because when we load object files, we don't actually know if > they're static or dynamic. This is encoded in the interface file, but > there are some tricky semantics about what to do in some cases of > (legitimately) needing to re-read interface files that are a bit > subtle. I'll be trying to revive my patch for this today. > > Other than that, there really hasn't been a lot to mention. Please, do > get down on reviewing some bugs and helping fix them![1] I'm more than > willing to help in any way I can. > > I'd also like some feedback: what do people think about the current > list? Are there any of you readers who see one *you* think is truly > critical? Maybe we can get some input to help narrow the scope if > needed. > > Thanks! > > [1] > https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/query?status=infoneeded&status=merge&status=new&status=patch&group=status&milestone=7.8.3 > > -- > Regards, > > Austin Seipp, Haskell Consultant > Well-Typed LLP, http://www.well-typed.com/ > _______________________________________________ > ghc-devs mailing list > ghc-devs@haskell.org > http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/ghc-devs _______________________________________________ ghc-devs mailing list ghc-devs@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/ghc-devs